ExactCIdiff: An R package for computing exact confidence intervals for the difference of two proportions

R Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 62-70

  Shan, Guogen ^a   Wang, Weizhen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84893482979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.32614/rj-2013-026     Document Type: Article

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